Soooo my dumb self decided in January that it’d be TOTALLY FINE to go to a show on the other side of town on a Tuesday night knowing damn well I had to work at 6 a.m. the next morning.
Anyway. I saw Nightly at Subterranean over in Wicker Park this past week and if you haven’t heard of them, you should definitely give them a listen.
This past weekend, something kinda weird happened.
The bar I used to work at in college followed me on Instagram.
I did a double-take and then immediately started laughing. I screenshotted the notification and posted it to Twitter with the caption “…you guys fired me in 2011.”
Cause, yep! I was fired from that bar my senior year of college. It was the one and only time I ever got fired from a job, and it ended up being one of the better things to ever happen to me.
I am baaackkkk with more blurry iPhone photos and a “concert review” written by somebody with no formal education in music journalism.
Yaaayyy! Aren’t you glad you’re following me?
*Watches subscriptions plummet*
This past Thursday, I ventured down to Metro to catch The WLDLFE and VHS Collection.
Hi! So, talking about posts that are way overdue.
I’m a yoga instructor now! With a real permanent class on a real weekly schedule at a real paying studio!
Is anyone else obsessed with Money Diaries?
Sometimes it’s a really good hate read, and other times it’s just genuinely interesting and fun to peruse. I love reading about how other people budget, spend and organize their money, since I’ve been trying to get a better handle on mine. After all, I’m almost (GAH) 30.
When I offhandedly mentioned to a friend that I have four different bank accounts, she got really intrigued and wanted to know more. So, I figured it’d be a good blog post topic!
So, back in January I started getting a little stir-crazy.
If you’re from the Midwest, you know what I’m talking about.
Winter here is all fine and well through, like, mid-January. Then the despair sets in and you start to get real sick of your four walls and the aroma of your Crockpot.
I hit that point back in January and found myself thinking about how badly I needed to do something to get out of my apartment.
Enter: Concerts!
I went a little crazy with the ticket purchasing and ended up dropping money on four March shows within, like, a two-hour period.
My bank account hated me at the time, but now everything’s been paid off and I get to reap the rewards!
And you get to reap the shitty iPhone photos and #content. Aren’t you glad you’re following along?!
First up: Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness with flor and Grizfolk!
Sometimes I’m a little wary about writing up these little packing posts because I often find myself thinking “Randi, nobody actually gives a shit what you brought.”
But then I realize that I personally Google “packing for [insert_destination_here]” ALL THE TIME, and also I’m always looking for new ways to economize my luggage — especially because I’m a light packer and I usually try to carry a single backpack with me on my trips.
Hola! I am sunburnt as all hell and I think I gained at least 10 pounds bc TACOS but I’m back in (cold, rainy and dreary) Chicago after an extended weekend in Tulum, Mexico!
Helloooo! I lied when I told you I wasn’t going to wait like, half a year to post a little life update.
I mentioned it a little earlier this week, but blogging hasn’t really been a priority of mine lately. And to be even more honest? That’s OK by me. I’ve kind of been feeling this way for a while, so I’ve come around to accepting it’s not a mood or a phase. When I started blogging years and years ago, my blog was a creative outlet; kind of like a public-facing diary but waaayyy less embarrassing than my actual diary. (Yes, I still keep one of those!)
Now the blogosphere is a smorgasbord of ads, paid product placements, affiliate links, etc. — and it’s kind of like… where do I fit into all that? Do I fit into all of that? Do I want to?
I’ve decided… I don’t care. I’m not keeping a list of page view targets or post goals or whatever. I’m going to post what I want when I want. I’ll still include affiliate links cause let’s be honest, I’m broke AF. (I’ll just be transparent about them ’cause I always will be.)
So, anyway! Here we are. “Organic” posting. Which brings me to… today’s little life update that should have been posted six months ago, whoops.
2018 was a weird year.
